A couple of posts back, I was speculating
about the real motives behind the Bush administration's sudden
interest in space exploration -- outer space, that is, as opposed
to the vast and empty reaches of inner space inside our president's
skull.

I said:

I suppose they're probably still trying to
figure out how to cut Halliburton in on the action. You'd think
$89 billion in Iraq would be a big enough pork barrel for anybody.
But maybe Cheney's trying to engineer a stock split. Now this
was supposed to be a joke -- not a very good joke, I know, but
the best I could come up with at the time. When you're competing
with the this administration, it's tough to get a laugh.

But -- and I probably should have seen this
coming -- it turns out to be no joke at all. Or rather, the joke
is on us simple-minded taxpayers. An alert reader passes along
the following item from Petroleum News:

NASA Ames Center looks at problem of drilling
on Mars

Dr. Geoffrey Briggs, director, Center for
Mars Exploration at the NASA Ames Center, told "Meet Alaska"
that NASA is looking at ways to drill on Mars to look for water
 and the life it might contain. Briggs said NASA has been
working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos
National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might
work on Mars...

Halliburton and Baker-Hughes are working on
some very advanced systems, Briggs said, some so advanced they
aren't willing to talk much about them. He said the NASA Ames
Center relies on working with people in the industry who "really
understand the problems and make us face up to the realities

One can already imagine the cost overruns
required to handle those "realities." Imagine it: a
drilling project on Mars -- roughly 300 million miles away from
the Defense Contract Audit Agency. Using proprietary technology
so secret the customer can't be told what it is or how it works.
Under the harshest and most difficult conditions imaginable.
And with a $1 trillion budget to hide it in.

I mean, Halliburton's current annual earnings
probably wouldn't equal a rounding error in a budget like that.

For a government contractor, can it get any
better than that?

Bradford moans on:

Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton. That
is all I ever hear. NOw the first St. Francis of Assissi flight
to Mars was a roaring success. Since that time, as Jo Ann can
tell you, of "Stranger in a Strange land" we have been
getting sub-psychic critical reports from the Red Planet. Orswon
Welles picked up a sub-signal and broadcast in his "War
of the Worlds"- and we even have had numerous first hand
soul reports that were brought to us regarding the Regime Change
on Mars. I wish to review them so that maybe you will understand
my depression.

To refresh our collective memories - There
were reports that Buddha took an ad-hoc assignment after playing
Jesus, and went to dull the blunt edge of the WAr God Mars. The
War God Mars was deeply impressed with old Buddha, for here was
the True Odhin, a heck of a guy, a real warrior at heart who
had just figured out that WMD or Weapons of Mass Destruction
were against the new Christ regime policy. You see these reports
have been flowing in and sitting on some Intelligence officers
desk for some time now and it is very depressing. Next thing
you know, due to underbudge and lack of staffing, the little
desk, piled high with reports like these, will be cut out of
the budget.

Halliburton gets all the contracts, even on
bloody Mars! We have had a whole incoming stream of indviduals
who have reported very clearly that Mars has undergone a regime
change. You know, when the Philosophy of Freedom describes how
everything we see is all part of an external matter body... our
arms, legs, eyeballs, trees and planets, well. Then it stands
to reason that Mars Rocks and drilling on Mars have llost their
mystery and all of space is now an open corporate excuse for
whoredom. Can we see how disheartening this is to the occultist
trying to do his job? Disheartening for my fellow Occultists,
now suffering a recession, a down turn, the bubble has burst.

This means that Schwartzenegger and his Mars
Industrialization of space, from his film "Total Recall"
is another stone dumped on the astral body of the Occultist.
For Halliburton is certainly not going to find Buddha On Mars.
You see Halliburton was having a field day when the Red Planet
came the closest to Earth in 70,000 years and War! War! War!
not only split the nation but gave me a splitting headache. The
down side of Mars coming so close, it allowed an influx of terrorists
from Mars to cross our borders.

I know I shouldn't take it personally, but
I made every effort to track down Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin Luther
King and show how they returned from Mars with an announced of
regime Change. Ding Dong the Wicked Martian Menace was Dead...
Ding Dong the wicked Martian Menace was Dead. You may even recall
that C.S. Lewis tried to spin out a Mars idea and a planetary
community out of his "Prelandra and "Out of the Silent
Planet'. These were all sub-psychic transmissions, which when
translated into the Intelligence community, meant, we were getting
covert reports about this regime change and the ramifications
for nations on Earth. But in our little office, behind the closet
of Special Plans, who would listen to us? Oh, no. It was spin,
spin, spin and WAR, War. War.

I mean this kind of thing goes right up to
the top. To the top do you hear me? I am certainly not gonna
take the fall for this leak. Kepler. Yep even Kepler and Tycho
de Brahe and his pen name Herzeloyde. Now Herzeloyde was the
mother of Parsifal, and I hope Ahriman is listening to this,
returned to Earth with a message from Mars as Tycho De Brahe.
Must I be condemned to right wild, insane fictional accounts
of Reality for Fox News. We had agents in the field for gods
sake.

So, as I said, the investment to be the first
humans on Mars was already accomplished and the changes in the
Red Planet have been going on steadily for centuries. We arrive
there, with bankruptcy and fanfare and say, look Ma, we're on
Mars. I hang my head. Should I just jump off a building? No,
Halliburton will walk away with the credit for Iraq and sustaining
the rule of the War God on Earth with Shock-Awe- and Awe shucks
Oil Wells. Halliburton will get credit for getting the ball rolling
and getting the U.S. drilling for popsicles on Mars. Is this
fair?

Now, who is hiding Terrorists? I want us to
look at who is harboring terrorists. There was a Regime Change
on Mars. The U.S. had nothing to do with it. It's not hidden
WMD shuttled over to Syria. But instead, we took the terrorist
refugees from Mars, the disturbed, disgrunteled mad Martian terrorists
and harbored them, hid them and fostered them here on Earth.
I accuse the United States of Being a Terrorist State and harboring
terrorists from Mars. The halls of the NSA, the Pentagon, the
C.I.A. and FBI are full of them.. don't even think about that
evil nest in Israel, jeesch!

Instead of listening and hearing what Robert
Heinlien and "Stranger in a Strange Land" was saying
in a sub-psychic radio transmission directly from Mars.. we have
chosen to allow disgrunted Martians to enter the NSA, CIA and
Pentagon and above all else, make Halliburton into a corporate
god, that now has an entire terrorist martian army behind it.
It is a terrorist Martian invasion. It is the "War of the
Corporate Worlds" and all our planetary friends are in danger.
Do I sound giddy? Do I sound Mad? That's just what they want
you to think.. We are living under Martial Law. What do you think
that means? It means Martian LAW.

Instead of the Assassin School of the Americas,
the St. Francis and Buddha, human School of the transformation
of Mars must face a hostile regime on Earth. Now who is the enemy?
Now who is harboring the enemy? Now tell me who is the Axis of
Evil? C.S. Lewis was dead on. The other planetary beings are
looking at the Silent Planet, where, apparently the God of Love
must fight insurgents who flee regime change and cross our border
illegally. Oh yes, our borders are being crosssed, even as I
write this. They ain't friendlies either. Concentration camps
are being set up for real friendlies and Earth is be the stage
or Theatre of War. A war on the claim of who first landed on
Mars and why the Press ain't talkin. You see how depressing this
is for an Occultist?